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Personally, I'm pretty OK with just writing standard HTML, CSS (with Sass), and using JQuery. React and Angular and their ilk are too abstracted for my tastes.

• retox 9y ago
  >Angular and their ilk are too abstracted for my tastes. This is my experience learning angular for my latest role.The basic concepts seem easy to grasp but there are so many thing going on "for free" that I can't reason about what is actually happening. I'm hoping it becomes easier with time but the tooling is making things harder than it needs to be.
  • towndrunk 9y ago
    Have a look at the T3 Framework. https://github.com/box/t3js https://github.com/box/t3js Very simple to use and overtime you will create a collection of reusable services.
• floatboth 9y ago
  jQuery is not very useful these days though. It just provides imperative functions for doing stuff — manipulating DOM elements, making HTTP requests and so on — and they're no longer necessary since pretty much everything is built-in now (querySelector, classList, Promises, fetch, Web Animations…) And what jQuery does not do is the one important thing — declarative data binding. By the way, another built-in thing in browsers is Web Components — having a component model is also necessary for modern app development. So if you take Web Components and add data binding and some other sugar, you get Polymer. Here's a good overview of each layer of sugar it adds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=assSM3rlvZ8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=assSM3rlvZ8 I also don't like React and Angular — but I absolutely enjoy working with Polymer.